A trade is better then service.
Divine fires do not blaze each day but an artist functions in their afterglow, hoping for their recurrence.
Don't be too dismissive of children. While it's true that few children are artists, all artists are children.
Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.
If music could be translated into human speech, it would no longer need to exist.
Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.
The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty.
My two great loves are music and horses.
What are you, Rose Hathaway? Are you real? You're a dream within a dream. I'm afraid touching you will make me wake up. You'll disappear.
My rule of thumb is that I want to do things I'd like to go and see myself.
Pundits are always blaming TV for making people stupid, movies for desensitizing the world to violence, and rock music for making kids take drugs and kill themselves. These things should be the least of our worries. The main problem with mass media is that it makes it impossible to fall in love with any acumen of normalcy. There is no 'normal,' because everybody is being twisted by the same sources simultaneously.